BJP IT cell official’s tweet asks people to kill JNU professors and students #WTFnews

If you thought the controversy over Shilpi Tewari, the former aide of Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani, posting doctored video of Kanhaiya Kumar to build a case for sedition was an aberration, think again.

An active member of GujaratBJP’s IT cell has now been accused of posting a tweet asking the ‘anti-national’ JNU professors and students to be killed.

Sanjay Rathod posted this tweet on 8 March, before deleting it, perhaps under pressure from his bosses, who feared huge public backlash.

Rathod, who is the IT cell convener of BJP’s Junagadh unit, posted on his Twitter handle Tuesday, “Shoot Anti National JNU students & Proff and close the chapter. But the problem is that Our Govt doesn’t allow to kill Dogs #WakeUpIndia”.

At 3.30 am, two minutes before his “shoot” suggestion, Rathod, 35, also posted, “#Wake-UpIndia or it will be too late. There are big forces who want to break India. They are funding #antinationals & paid media.”

Defending his posts, Rathod told Indian Express, “As a BJP member, I am supposed to express my opinion and counter views opposed to my party. I am also supposed to support those supporting our line of thinking.”

Rathod has 119,000 followers and is followed by Gujarat’s Minister of State for Science and Technology, Govind Patel.

His home page proudly displays two photos with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.